After a year away due to the pandemic, the Fresh Paint Mural Festival kicked off June 5 with an ambitious agenda of creating 10 large murals on 10 spaces in the downtown and Mason Square sections of Springfield inside of a week. On Saturday morning the final touches to the last pieces were laid down, ready for an afternoon ribbon-cutting ceremony.
At various locations across the city, buildings ranging from one-story high structures to seven-story towers became canvases for internationally renowned artists to show parts of Springfield and its history that few were aware of and document it for all to see and appreciate.